Spellchecking: Problem with umlauts

[Bezierr]

Hi there,

first, thanks for providing this; finally, I found a useable Linux alternative to OneNote!

Version used: 2.1.11-80bb1b1, as Appimage, downloaded from this website. OS is Linux Mint Mate 21.3.

Issue: When spellchecking, words that contain German umlauts (ä, ö, ü etc.) are not found in the hunspell dictionary, even though they are there. Instead, "corrupted" words like "wof�r" (for "wofür") are suggested. Most likely a character encoding issue: hunspell dictionary on my system is iso-8859-1; local nixnote2 user word list is utf-8.

[boo-yee]

Most likely a character encoding issue: hunspell dictionary on my system is iso-8859-1; local nixnote2 user word list is utf-8.

You could try https://github.com/wooorm/dictionaries.

I tried it and the spell checker did not complain.

[Bezierr]

Hi,

thanks for your reaction. Instead of installing additional / different dictionaries, I changed the encoding of the existing ones to UTF-8. Now it works -- hope there won't be any side effects because of this somewhere else in my system.

Still, it seems a bit strange to me that I have to do that. Then what exactly is the SET statement in the .aff file for? But admittedly, I don't know anything about the inner workings of spell checking.

[boo-yee]

Now it works -- hope there won't be any side effects because of this somewhere else in my system.

If these dictionary files are searched only by Nixnote, and they are located in the $HOME folder, then it will not affect on the other applications.

Then what exactly is the SET statement in the .aff file for?

It is used for encoding.